Link 15 March 2015
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Content - Content - Editorial
-Drawing Lesson
- Who we are
-Thieves of bicycles
- New volunteer
-World Autism Awareness Day
-Some little information’s about Hamburg -Music Therapie ! -Hamburg’s musical landscape -Eurocircle -Interview with Ines
-Help needed
-Viennese „Kaiserschmarrn“
-What’s new
-Facilitate the progress- seminar-What’s coming soon Kalamata 2015
Editorial Youth today have to face several challenges directly or indirectly concerning them. Their everyday life, especially in an urban environment, is built around a model of life quite restrictive. The pattern imposes a daily circle which comes around school, studying and learning languages or making sports. For those who have the “luxury”, a music school, an arts school or travelling since very young, can be beneficiary for their creativity and personal development. For the “unlucky” ones even finishing school can be a challenge. Unfortunately most of young teenagers, don’t have any “extra free time” activity, spending their time trying to be like the others want them to be... Oscar Wilde said “Be yourself, everyone is taken”. But how easy is to be yourself in the nowadays competitive environment? How easy is to be different? How easy is not to follow the “standards” of the society? Boys wear blue, girls wear pink. A system of misrepresented set of principles which blocks the freedom of expression, the crea
tivity and the uniqueness of the person which just puts young people in boxes with colourful labels. And these boxes are becoming smaller and smaller as we are taking youth away from experiencing what they read. As we said, its ok if you are from the “lucky” ones and you can buy the experience. But the majority of youth have no luxuries like that. They have to face the everyday bullying at school, parents’ absence due to work or other reasons, lack of motivation, lack of courage, studying a lot and resting less, unfairness and injustice at school or at home. Here comes the need of developing services for youth. Structures which will give them the opportunity to think out of the box, to create and to make mistakes. Programs which will offer them the convenience to experiment and experience as many different things as they can and want. Services run by trained people who will respect the uniqueness of each young person and will help him/her to go through his/her dreams. Youth workers are playing this important role. In our modern tomes, and if the values and priorities of our society don’t change, youth work is necessary.
As longer as we wait until we take action, that bigger the challenges will be. And in Greece[1] is necessary to develop youth services and youth work as a formal recognised job, with training and employment opportunities for youth workers. Otherwise we are taking a great risk as society and its only our generation to blame. [1] Youth work is not recognised in Greece and youth services don’t exist in all country. The last months, a group of people decided to go a step further and create an association of youth workers, with the aim to achieve the development of youth services around the country and the recognition, education and employment for youth workers.
Filaretos Vourkos
Who we are My name is lolita but you can call my lola also. I have twenty years old. I studie social work. I love animal and in particularity my favorite are horses. I like dancing, listen music. My personality adventuress, Philosophie of lolita : stay serious but when the time is for enjoy, laugh because life is simple ! =)
I am Burçin BEZİRKAN, from Turkey. I am 25 years old and coming from Antalya. I studied Public Administration at Akdeniz (Mediterranean) University and I am doing master at same university and on the same major. Here in Kalamata, I am working in Farma Fifa with Mirto Fifa for Natural Farming Project. I love reading book and watching movies and I love this Country!!!!
Aye, i’m Laura nineteen years old and i come from the south of France. I’m interest in learning other language and cultre and that’s why i came the Greece. I’m more of an indoor person with a calm personality and i really like snow that why i love winter but i pefer spring for the flower. XD
Hello everyone, as you already may know, I am Daan the Dutch EVS’er. Don’t confuse it with Deutsch, I am from The Netherlands. You know, Amsterdam, cheese and weed. Ok, I would love to meet a lot of people, so if you are in for a beer or a coffee, you will find me!
Hello, I’m Agnieszka, I’m 23 years old and I come from Poland. I’m volunteering in Youth Centre of Kalamata. I’m a big fan of music festivals and live music. My favorite season is summer, and the most enjoyable sport is snowboarding ;).
Hello people, I’m Nuno Davide and I twenty-three years. I’m from Portugal and I live in (Lisbon). I studied Graphic Design, and I love drawing, painting, listening to music, playing football and many things .. I came to Greece to evolve in my artistic career and learn and experience new cultures English Greek principaly. ;)
Hallo! I’m Ines Hofer from Vienna, Austria. I’m 27 years old and studied Zoology (Animal Behaviour) at the University of Vienna. Here in Kalamata, I’m volunteering for Re-think Project and Farma Fifa Permaculture. I like being in the nature, hiking, travelling and enjoying life
So..I am from Poland. My name is Kasia and I am 23 years old. I study Croatian language and literature. Balkan, most of all Serbia, is my place in this world, but I love to travel, to live in different places, to meet new people, because from this people I draw energy and joy. I love to dance and sing even I’m not the best in it. I love to listen to people and see some situations from different perspective. I learn by experience, project in Greece is next step in my “education”on”.
Aye my name is Lorenzo Brizi ad i come from Italy. I come from a small town located between lazio, umbria and tuscany. Named acquapendente. In the province of viterbo. I’m 20 years old and i will stay in Kalamata until september. I will work to the youth center as a teacher of italian and also in tourist information center. I want to try new working experience to improve myself and also enjoy the summer, the beach and the company
Like we say: we keep the best for the end so now K.A.NE people Hello fellow EVSers! My name is Argyris, Αργύρης, Арјирис, 아라리스 (the last one is Korean, and the one before is my contribution to serbocroatian) and I am the most long-term Euphoric Violent Surrealist (EVS) in K.A.NE., I am an all around player, attacking with the power of unlimited love and laughter and defending with the shield of memory. I have been living in Kalamata and working for K.A.NE. since April 2014 and I know everything about the meaning of life and death. Feel free to ask me whatever you want ☺
Hi my name is Fotini Arapi and I am project manager at K.A.NE. organization and responsible for all sending motilities (sending EVS volunteers, participants in training courses, interns, etc). Apart from my work in K.A.NE., I also volunteer in the Youth Centre of Kalamata, a volunteer ini tiative managed by a team of local volunteers. I am very proud of and I love the Youth Centre, its dynamic, and most of all its natural inclusiveness that allows everybody to feel “at home” there. See you around :-D
Filaretos Vourkos / Last 7 years I am working in the field of non formal educa- tion as a volunteer, youth worker and youth trainer. 4 years ago, I decided to create the Youth Centre of Kalamata, in order to initiate the youth work in Kalamata and promote active citizenship as factor of change.
New Volunteer in Kalamata
Hi! I’m Stina, 20 years old and from Hamburg in Germany. My project here where I volunteer, is in the Youth Center. What I like the most, is music. In Hamburg I sing in two bands, I’m learning the guitar and go to concerts and festivals as much as I can.
Hello, my Name is Jana an I am from Hamburg. I am working in the therapeutic horse riding project and also in the KEFIAP Center. In my free time I like to dance ballet and meet some friends.
Some little information’s about Hamburg Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and is located in the north of Germany. It’s famous because of the big Party area called “St. Pauli” and also for the bad weather. We also have a big river called “Elbe” where you can sit on the beach and have a great view on the harbor.
Generally in Hamburg is a lot of water. We have a lot of canals and because of this more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam together.
In the center of Hamburg is a big Park where you can make some sports or go swimming and there is also our “Planetarium” where you can learn a lot about the universe in 3D.
In total 14% of Hamburg are Parks or other “green places”. In three times of the year we have a really big funfair with a length of 3 km! There you can buy a lot of candy or go on a carousel. Once a year, at the Elbe, is a Party with Music and a big boatshow, to celebrate the birthday of the harbor.
Jana Henschel
Hamburg’s musical landscape Hamburg. Germany’s second biggest city. My hometown. Me, a music-addicted north light, was wondering what to write my first article about. A small talk gave me clarity, that music is obviously the best topic to write about for me. Music is a big thing in my lovely ‚village’, which counts almost 1.8 million inhabitants. I realized that even many musicians I like come actually from Hamburg. So, one example in the beginning: If you like electronic music, and especially the genre minimal techno, the duo Kollektiv Turmstrasse is a really good choice to listen to. Okay, they were born somewhere even more in the north, but then after they chose Hamburg and are still living there. It’s no monotonous techno, it’s melodic with many small everyday life sounds. For example ‚Grillen im Garten‘ (means ‚Barbecue in the garden‘) which contains sounds of birds and children playing. If you want to have a listen, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwUx0Ehpyk Electronic music is a very important aspect in Hamburg’s night life. Especially in the area ‚Schanze‘, which is an alternative and political left-orientated district.
Hamburg’s night life. Especially in the area ‚Schanze‘, which is an alternative and political left-orientated district. Here you can also find the ‚Rote Flora‘, an occupied autonomous center, if you maybe heard about it. The clubs I mean especially are under the ‚Sternenbrücke‘ (‚bridge of stars‘), a metro bridge, where in every corner is a club. But also in the famous St. Pauli area, with our colorful Reeperbahn, you can hear it echo out of some club’s doors under flashing neon letters, even if here’s the place where you’ll find more mainstream party music. But of course, there’s more than night life music. Hamburg has many concert spaces and they’re used every evening. Whatever music fan you are a kind of, reggae, pop, rock, indie, hip hop… you can find a place to stay, to dance and especially sing your heart out. If you’re interested in discovering new music, I will give you just some examples shortly, because I don’t want to write a whole novel: Neonschwarz (hip hop), Fettes Brot (hip hop), Tonbandgerät (indie pop), Wilhelm Tell Me (synthie pop), Deichkind (hip hop/electro punk), 187 Strassenbande (street hip hop), Kettcar (rock), Rantanplan (ska punk), I-Fire (reggea). Besides a really important thing are festivals in my opinion, to discover new music, to have a lot of fun, to have more choice. There are many. A lot of small ones which happen in clubs, also the Reeperbahn Festival, which takes place in many, many of the clubs on the Reeperbahn and is usually for 4 days in September.
But the biggest one, where people from all over Germany swing their asses to our lovely riverside on the Elbe, is Dockville Festival, which has 25.000 visitors in 4 days of August.
This contains camping, much glitter, many beer cans, dirt, too many drinking games where you have to run all the time, but the best: party and talented musicians almost 24 hours. The special thing about it is, that before the festival begins, the organizing people take a lot of time also for building up artwork from local artists. So not only your ears, also your eyes will be amazed when you have a visit. What music they are playing here ? A lot. Indie, Rock, Pop, Electro, Hip Hop blablablabla
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Welcome to New Volunteer! Hello! Can you tell shortly about yourself ? My name is Jana. I am from Germany and I am here for 1 week. I like dancing ballet and doing a special kind of self -defense. What had you expected before you came here? I had thought it would be more stressful and I had to do la lot of things to do. I had also hoped to meet nice people here and have fun with them. Are the conditions as you expected? No and yes. No, it is not as stressful as I worried or there are not too much work to do. And yes, I met nice people here and it looks like I will have fun during my EVS. What about your new expectations after you arrived in Kalamata? I had a good start to my project and I hope it will continue like that. And I want to learn new things in my project and I want to learn Greek.
What had you known about Greece before your arrival? I have been in Greek islands before and I know about friendly Greek people. And I had also known about Kalamata olives. You can find them in Germany. After your first week in Kalamata, what are your first impressions? I can say “food”. In my first day, I ate at a traditional restaurant with home-made food and I loved it. Greek cuisine is the best for me! What else do you want to say? I am happy to be here in Kalamata. There are nice people around me. JA LALA!! =)
Burçin Bezirkan
Interview with Ines Ines is an Austrian EVS-volunteer, who arrived to Kalamata 14th of September 2014. Her project will soon come to an end.
Ines could you tell us… • What is your project about? My project is about natural farming. That means that I’m most of the time working in the garden doing planting. Sometimes (and this part I like the most) we have workshops with children on our farm. • What do you usually do in your leisure-time? I like to go to coffee places and bars with friends and of course going to the beach for a swim. • What are your favorite places in Kalamata?
My favorite place in Kalamata is the beach. When I’m not feeling good I go there and it calms me down a lot. • How long will you stay here? I will stay until the end of April. • How are you going to spend your last weeks? I want to travel as much as possible before leaving. Also I will go to Crete and Santorini with my sister at the end of April. So I’m really looking forward to that and of course I want to spend a lot of quality time with other volunteers. • Do you have any favorite travel destination in Greece so far? So far it’s Meteora. But I haven’t been to an island so far, so maybe my opinion will change. In general I think Greece is a very beautiful country, I really liked Taygetos Mountains, Mani, cities like Thessaloniki, Ionnina or Koroni. Actually I think I liked all the places I visited so far • How about Greek culture? What did you discover and what will you bring to Austria? Everything is much more relaxed and slower here. First it was driving me crazy, but now I really like it. So I hope I can keep this way of living also in Vienna (or at least for a while ;))
• What will be the most memorable day of your EVS? At the beginning of November I traveled to Xilokastro for one weekend. It was really cold there and I didn’t enjoy my time very much so I decided to come back earlier. When I came home, everyone was sitting in the kitchen and they cooked together. This was the first time that I really felt like home in Kalamata and like a family with the volunteers. • Was it EVS? What
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Yes, for me it was the right decision. One reason why I came here was to figure out what I want to do next. After a few days working on the farm I realized that I never want to work in an office again. And now almost at the end of my project I exactly know what I want to do in my life. • What would you change if you could do EVS once again? I would like to work with people with disabilities. Also I would be much more active from the beginning. Now I feel like time went by very quickly and I wasn’t able to do a lot of things that I before coming here. • What are you going to do after your EVS? After EVS I will work as a Biology teacher and do another Master (‘Therapeutic gardening’)
• Will you continue working voluntary? Yes definitely. Also before EVS I used to volunteer a lot in Vienna for environmental and animal welfare NGOs.
Agnieszka Lul
Viennese „Kaiserschmarrn“ For the Orthodox world, Lent began on Clean Monday, and so did the 40 day Lenten fast. In this context, “fasting” doesn’t mean not eating at all, rather it means restricting one’s diet by eliminating all meat, eggs and dairy. Fish and shellfish are allowed. Devout Greeks actually fast for 120 days each year: 40 days before Christmas, 40 days before Easter, and 40 days before the Assumption of Mary. This is fully 1/3 of the year! Because of this, Greeks have developed a whole cuisine of delicious foods called “nistisima” that have no meat, eggs or dairy. As long as you avoid the seafood, these dishes are not only vegetarian, but also vegan. As I’m vegan this is the best time for me here in Greece To enlarge peoples recipes especially for this period I want you to give you a nice and also easy Viennese recipe: Ingredients -2 cups flour
-7 tbsp margarine
-2 tsp baking powder
-1 package of vanilla sugar
-1/4 tsp cinnamon
-Powdered sugar
-2 cups soy milk
-Apple puree
To Make 1. Combine the flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Make a well in the middle and add the soy milk. Stir with a whisk until batter is a smooth consistency. 2. Heat a large fry pan over a medium heat and add 1 tbsp margarine. 3. Add about 1/4 of the batter to the pan at a time, you will need to cook them in 2 batches. Flip the pancakes after about 2-3 minutes, or when bubbles appear all around the edge of the pancake and the bottom looks golden brown. 4. Add an extra tbsp of margarine to the pan and cook the second batch. Once cooked set the pancakes aside 5. Return the saucepan to the heat and add 2 tbsp of the margarine. Add the sliced apples and cook for about 4 minutes over a medium heat, stirring frequently, until slightly softened.
6.Tear the pancake into pieces - if they’re not too hot then you can use your hands, if they are still very hot then you can use 2 forks. 7. Increase the heat to high and add additional 3 tbsp margarine along with the torn pancake pieces. 8. Cook, stirring occasionally for 3-5 minutes or until the pancake pieces are golden. 9. Sprinkle powdered sugar and serve with apple puree or berries. ENYOUR YOUR MEAL!
Ines Hofer
FACILITATE THE PROGRESS – SEMINAR KALAMATA 2015
Last week ( 07-14.03.2015) it was crazy week for volunteers from Kentro Neon and workers of K.A.NE. organization. We had pleasure to host youth workers from all around the world and everything because of seminar “Facilitate the progress” hosted by K.A.NE.! During this time young people facilitated by our dear Fotini and Filaretos learned how to step by step work with young people in their countries but also how to be involvedin European programs (Erasmus+). Nevertheless, the main point of this wonderful meeting was sharing of experience, own observations and also problems and fears from the own background.
From 9 am to late afternoons, everyday participants were debating, playing simulations, breaking stereotypes and creating new solutions. I have to mention that one of the days was very inspiring for all of us! On Wednesday 11th of March we had pleasure to be guests in the K.E.TH.E.A. center. Members of this society told us about their experience and fight with addiction. They are extremely strong people who believe in better tomorrow… I suppose that all of us we left their house with power to action and hope… Eh… All of it seems to be so serious… and of course it was! But we have to remember that we are still talking about young people! So... I will never forget the great theatre simulations, crazy energizers and of course beautiful and rich INTERCULTURAL NIGHT where we could see presentation of 11 countries (Croatia, Egypt, France, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, UK, Tunisia and Greece)! We tried regional food, sweets and drinks. After that the party started with the rhythm of national songs and dances. If someone wants to check, I recommend “penguin dance” presented by Romania ;)
Ahhh, now left only wonderful memories, friendships and heads full of knowledge! For me the possibility to be part of that amazing event it was big pleasure!
KATARZYNA CHOJNOWSKA
Drawing Lesson How is my first time to give a workshop, I want to teach my students are for basic processes. One of them is, showing how to use imagination in the design, even if they have to copy by simple parts such as glass, bottle, spoon, plate, nature and many others. Free designs, as I can see and evaluate the type of trace each and their own styles. The correct and safe way to use the pencil. And the 6 basic steps to good design.
Nuno Davide
THIEVES OF BICYCLES: Bicycle Thieves is one of the most famous films of Italian neorealism. Inspired by the novel by Luigi Bartolini, the film chronicles the life of a second after the war in his everyday life: the search for a stolen bike and random encounter with the thief. What attracted the director Vittorio De Sica was paradoxically the absolute banality of narrative pretext and notifies you explicitly proudly through dialogue at the police station at the time of the complaint, between the reporter and the policeman: “News, sergeant?” “No. nothing: a bicycle. “As if to say: only those with talent can afford to tell the search of a bicycle through the streets of Rome for an hour and a half, without losing the story for a moment the involvement of its audience. It is the postwar Rome to welcome the star of the film: Antonio Ricci is immersed in a reality common to many other of his peers in the capital after the war, is unemployed and has a family to feed; when she finally managed to get a job as sticking to perform it turns out that you need to possess a bicycle, means of locomotion indispensable at that time because the car was a luxury they could
indulge in a few. Engaging the sheets home can redeem their by pawnshop so he can fulfill his dream. Unfortunately a condition of poverty and destitution (rampant at that time) easily leads the human being to the theft, and in his first day of work the precious means of transport is stolen; thus begins the desperate path of Antonio to retrieve the bike, essential narrative element around which the whole story. Man tries by all means to restore the balance broken by the thief, and together with the small son Bruno seeks him in markets Roman Piazza Vittorio and Portaportese, through a seer devoted to his wife, on the streets of the poorest neighborhoods; finally identified the responsible for the theft tries to report him to the police but, among the people of the district, will meet with an impenetrable wall of silence and hostility that, together abjection into which the thief and his family, will induce him to give up. This is where Antonio undermines his position as a man honest and solid, for example, the little Bruno, and making the gesture of which he himself was the victim becomes, in the eyes of the crowd who discovered him and especially to those of his son, humiliated and offended.
Lorenzo Brizi.
World Autism Awareness Day The second of April is a very important day to take a day off from work, school and other unimportant thinks. The only reason for this is the World Autism Awareness Day. A day that the whole world must look after one thing, our fellow ‘autism’ inhabitants of this world. Actually it is not only important to look after people with autism only on this day; no it is important that we do this every day. Every day we must be aware that there are people who face and experience the world in a completely different way . In other editions of LINK I wrote already about autism and about κεντρο ημερας but this time I want to inform you about the second day of April. During that day, worldwide activities are organized in order to inform the “normal” human being about Autism. Also in Kalamata, κεντρο ημερας will share information about Autism. Activities will be organized at αριστομενους. Safe the date in your agenda and come, see and learn! More information will follow, pay attention to the facebook page of the Youth Center, there I will post more details and also links with more information about autism.
Daan Roorda
Music Therapie !
What is that ? Its a therapie, where you use the song for improve social compétencess and help the body and the psychologie of the person, Two way : Music therapy “active” facilitates self-expression. It favors intervention techniques such as singing, instrumental or gestural improvisation, songwriting and performing rhythmic movements to the sound of music. In “responsive”, listening to music can stimulate the creative energy and help increase concentration and memory. Music can also bring out emotions, sometimes forgotten or deeply buried. The therapist may use these emotions to enhance the therapeutic process, and reset the music involved. The therapeute can work with one person or with on group,
Principal goal : Concentration Listening
Develope the sens To work in cooperation with a group Be patience ForWho this therapie its interesting :
Children with disability (autistime for example) or children with social developement probleme adulte with psychological probleme or with physical.
Lolita Garcia
Eurocircle Aye! I’m a EVS volunteer in Greece and i will speak about Eurocircle. Just to remind you to do an EVS you need a sending, a hosting and a coordinating organization, and Eurocircle is my sending organization in France. Locate in Marseille, it’s an oraganization which was create in Berlin Germany in 1993 it’s since 2006 an europeen ONG. the people from this association develop and achieve transnational project, most of the time in the international mobility of youth. The aim of theise project is on intercultural europeen citizenship with tolerance, eguality, peace, ecology and solidarity as their principle. Really active in the youth mobility they have different partnership in the Europe and in France and are able to propose different kind project for youth people : -EVS -Youth exchange -Training course -Leonardo internship - Civic service
In different country of Europe; from Maroc passing by Turkey to Finland and event some of Asian country! Yeah! so nice for me who hope to do something there after my EVS. They also inform people on the actulity of some event like open day: Day of summer job on the 23th March.For exemple or important celebration like: Celebrating Europe on the 9 May. I know, i have a soooo nice sending organization. :p
Laura Doddi
Help needed * CHAIRS
Strange as it may sound, the Youth Center is in need of chairs! As the Youth Centre acquires more and more members, and the use of the chairs is extensive, our poor old chairs are breaking down. As it is, it is impossible to have all the chairs that the workshops need. If you have any chairs that you do not use, or you think that you can spare, you can bring them!
* MARKERS for the white board
As all of the language workshops make use of the white board, we consume approximately 3 markers per week!
* Pens
You can never have enough of those!
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Computers
Unfortunately, the Youth Centre at the moment has only 1 working (almost) computer to be used in the info-point. We need at least 1 more computer to be used in the dance workshops (for now we are using a borrowed one) and 1 more for the outside activities‌
* Volunteers
As you may have noticed, most of the time in the Youth Centre, apart from our lovely volunteers from abroad, there is usually also a Greek speaking volunteer around, to give information about the workshops and help in case it is needed. If you want to become and volunteer in the Youth Centre and dedicate 2-3 hours per week to help with the running of the Youth Centre, please, do not hesitate to contact us at: kentroneonkalamatas@gmail.com
What’s new New programm for the Youth Center https://kentroneon.wordpress. com/2015/03/12/programme_march15/
What’s coming soon
Italian lesson begin on the 25th March
Party for the birthday of Youth Center
Most of our EVS volunteer will go to Athens for their Mid-Term Seminar in the middle of next week
The volunteers responsible for this publication are hosted in Greece in the framework of the European Erasmus+ programme, KA1/youth - European Voluntary Service. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained there in.
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